The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-11-12


quarter month. Can they stand tP Will
they stand it9 that's the question:
With our other troubles is the bitter fight
now going on between the World and the
Sun, both protesting to be Democratic.
The circulatio9of the Sun has been serious
ly crippled, andthe circulation of the World
largely increased. The breach beginning at
the nomination Of Mr.. Cleveland, has giad-
ually grown wider and deeper, eliminating
In the SUMS bitter attack on the World re.
garding the nomination of Delaney Nicoll
for District Attorney. The World has
perslstently insisted on the nomination of
Mr.. Nicoll, virtually debating the policy of
the Democratic party of the city of New
York. Mr.. Pulitzer is not long from st.
Louis, and though he succeeded in getting
never been liked by the Democratic leaders,
who haye one and all resented his dictator
ship. MI. Dana saw his chance and took
advantage of it, and gave Mr.. Pulitzer a
blow below belt, through the person of his
managing chief, Colonel Cockrill. Colonel
Cockril had the misfortune TO be engaged
| in murderous encounter in his Office in
st. Louis. A man of desperate character
came into bis Office to make him retTact an
article, which had appeared in the paper,
of which he was the managing chief, and
of which Mr.. Pulitzer was the principal
owner. The encounter was short and sharp
and when the people rushed In attracted 10
the spot by the sounds of the firing Colon
el Cockrills adversary lay dead upon the
floor. At first there was talk Of lynching;
but the investigation which followed satis-
fed everybody, not governed by the bitter
est prejudice. that Colonel Cockrill only
defended himself as all mau would under
the circumstances, and If he had not killed
his opponent, his opponent would haye
killed him. But, Notwithstanding his ex-
oneratiou by the jury, he found his posi-
lion in ST.. Louis unpleasant, and when Mr..
Pulitzer purchased the World, he followed
him to New York and became the World s
managing chief. In his article last week,
Mr.. Dana declared that he had nothing
personally against Mr.. Nicoll: but the fact
of the Worlds advocacy of him, was In It.
self suspicious, and that 1t could not con-
sent TO have the prosecuting attorney Of
the great city of New York under any OBJ
| legation for his election to such paper as
the World-so that If they wished to assas-
sinate anybody else. they could have the
prosecuting attorney on their side. 1t was
a cruel, as well as q wicked thing to do,
but Mr.. Dana did 1t. Unfortunately for
Colonel Cockrill, whether justly or not, he
brought to New York the reputation of a
Western ruffian and bull,, who travelled
about with a bowie knife in his boot. pair
of Derringers In his pocket, a slung shot
in one sleeve of his coat and a dynamite
| cartridge in the other; man who was al
ways spelling for a fight, and a person
whom 1t would be advisable TO avoid. This
character of Colonel Cockrill has been in
dustriously circulated about New York, by
his enemies, of whom Mr.. Dana is not the
least. 1t is only just to say that Colonel
Cockrill is the very reverse of what he has
been painted. No man deplores the un-
fortunate occurrence which clouded his
life, more than be; and while man of
positive character and decided opinions,
as the manager of great journal ought 10
be, he is nevertheless kind, afable, genial.
and well liked by the large staff under
his control. But when he read Dana S
article on Delaney Nicoll, writ ten in cold
blood, the Colonel fired up to white heat,
and uncorked the seventh vial of wrath
phew! wasn't it scorcher. If Dana s
hide is not as thick as that of rhinoceros,
he must have imagined it was a cyclone
from Sheol. My, my; but didn't the Col
onel come down on him. His English is of
the most vigorous aud forcible kind--not
exactly as elegant as Addison but fully as
! forcible as Swift.
The defiance Of Mr.. Pulitzer of the World
by the Democratic leaders of New York in
the nomination of Mr.. Fellowes has raised
a terrible row. and Mr.. Dana claims il as
victory over his Austrian enemy Pulitzer.
There will be no blood spilled between the
rival editors, for Mr.. Dana is not fighting
man. but the battle of pop guns promises
TO be terrific.
The death of Father Kinner. the priest
who undertook to superintend the erection
of the Italian school which lumbled IN
ruins, killing and manning a large number
of people, places him beyond the reach of
human courts. His punishment has been
errible and swift and he has paid the pen
alt with his life. This will be but poor
consolation to the wretched families left
estitute by his criminal negligence and
! ignorance. He openly, with the connivance
OF the building superintendents, violated a
plain provision of the law, presuming on
h S position as priest to escape the con-
sequences OF his act He has d: agged
twenty or thirty poor families down to rum,
killing and manning their protectors, and
paying the penalty of his crime with his
own life. The offence was terrible, and
the punishment has been certain and
swift.
The arrest and Imprisonment Of Charles
G. FrancklHn is the talk of the city. He
was away mp in society, supposed to be a
millionaire, but in plain terms he seems TO
have been stealing for years, his Tobberies
amounting to over six hundred thousand
dollars, ,andworse than all be robbed his dear
est friendsand relatives. Now they are going
for Russell Sage and Jay Gould, the loot they
bagged amounting to three Millions. No
bad thing to take these hard times. The
squeezed several millions out of Gorld
when theyahicked him out of the Presiden-
cy of the Erie Railroad, and ii must be evil
dent that be got it dishonesty or he never
would have given itup without struggle.
Jay and Russell handcuffed together ON